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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...guard over the military stores there. The story goes on to say that Cambridge residents for some reason or other, sent in a petition to have the student guard removed and a good sized bull dog put in its place. Still keeping on Garden street, we very soon approach on the left the Harvard Astronomical Observatory, towards which we look with a curiosity which cannot be satisfied until the two or three days are announced on which the students, (but then only seniors), will be admitted. The observatory is out of our reach, but almost opposite are the Botanic Gardens...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Some walks about Cambridge. | 11/26/1884 | See Source »

...chance for a fine run around Harvard's line, but Hurd was watching and soon had Lamar sprawling on the ground. The next fine work done for Harvard was the steady catching in quick succession of long flies by both Willard and Kimball. Despite their efforts the ball would approach their end of the field. Moffat made a fair catch within range of the posts and Hodge proceeded to try his luck at a goal from the field. He failed. De Camp was more lucky, catching the ball on the run he continued running until he was safely over...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Foot Ball. | 11/17/1884 | See Source »

...when Saxe getting hold of the ball made a beautiful rush, the feature of the game, and made a touchdown directly behind the Harvard goal and Judd kicked the goal, making the score 16 to 0 in favor of Wesleyan. The reasons for thus allowing the Wesleyan men to approach the Harvard end so often were poor tackling and a refusal to fall on the ball by our rushers, and the magnificent kicking of the Wesleyan half-backs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wesleyan Defeats our Eleven. | 11/3/1884 | See Source »

...younger members of the Cornell Faculty was highly edified recently by the approach of a freshman who inquired in a kindly and sociable way if this was his first term at that institution...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 10/22/1884 | See Source »

...near approach of the long summer vacation naturally brings up, among other things, the question of summer reading. Very few of us care to bind and restrict ourselves to any one prescribed course of reading during the summer, while at the same time we all acknowledge that something should be read. Of course, a large majority consider "History, Biography and Travel" far too heavy work for the warm weather, and turn naturally to the novel as the great staple of summer reading. But herein is the difficulty. Of course it is a very easy thing to read the latest...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 6/17/1884 | See Source »

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